This taxon was formally described the same year that Shaw described it, by Daudin (1802: 122), as Ameiva erythrocephala, and has been credited to Daudin in the literature ever since (e.g., Schwartz and Henderson, 1988: 63). However, as Daudin's volume 3 was published in August 1802, at least seven months after Shaw's work appeared, Daudin's name is a junior synonym of Lacertaerythrocephala Shaw, Ameiva erythrocephala (Shaw, 1802) [SMITH & DAVID, from the introduction to the facsimile reprint of SHAW 1802].

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References

Barbour, Thomas 1923. West Indian investigations of 1922. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (132): 1-9 - get paper here